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St. Arnaud, Bill. "Gigabit Internet to Every Home and School: A Conceptual Overview." In Managing Telecommunications and Networking Technologies in the 21st Century: Issues and Trends, ed. Gerald G. Grant, 21-44 (2001), accessed February 22, 2018. doi:10.4018/978-1-878289-96-4.ch002

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Abstract

One of last great impediments to wide-scale and rapid deployment of the information society is the "last mile" issue. This chapter outlines some of the issues and history of the last mile problem and proposes a research and development program leading to early deployment of extreme high speed Internet access to schools and libraries (GITS), which will then underpin an architectural framework for high speed Internet access to the home-Gigabit Internet to the Home (GITH). The proposed strategy calls for the deployment of a third residential network service operating in parallel with existing telephone and cable delivery mechanisms and thereby avoiding the regulatory and technical hurdles of integrating traditional telephone and cable services into one common delivery mechanism.